Alumni Evan Bartoletti and Lisa Lechuga form design company Lechetti Designs. Their latest project together involved designing sets and puppets for the show “Voices Carry,” an interdisciplinary ...

HO CHI MINH CITY: Every Sunday a small room in an apartment building in Ho Chi Minh (HCM) City transforms itself into a lively stage where children learn to give life to strings and puppets. When we ...

Nicole gently grabbed the string and instructed me to hold it with a couple fingers while tilting my hand a bit. And just like that, my puppet came to life and stood string to string with a line of ...

A huge humpback whale is among the mysterious creatures inhabiting String and Shadow Puppet Theater’s “Ship of Fools.” Courtesy of String and Shadow Puppet Theater String and Shadow Puppet Theater’s ...

Believed to have found their origins in India about 4,000 years ago, Greek philosopher Plato wrote about “puppets” in his “Allegory of the Caves.” In China, shadow puppetry can be easily traced back ...

A centuries-old hun luang puppet is seen in a Thailand museum. Artisans there have recently revived the style of theater using them. P Lham Kun / Flickr A lost art of puppet theater will be revived in ...